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Press Release: 02/21/07 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/OPPORTUNITY FOR COVERAGE TO: All News Directors Press Contacts:
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COMMUNITY FOLK ART CENTER PRESENTS Photographic Exhibition Features Images
from New Orleans Based Artists Donn Young - Sunrise 9th Ward Syracuse, NY - The Community Folk Art Center, 805 East Genesee Street
in Syracuse, will present "Environmental Injustice and the Artist
Response to Hurricane
Katrina," curated by Redell Hearn, featuring the work of Donn Young
and Gus Bennett, Jr. The exhibition will be on view
from March 3rd through April 21st, 2007.
There will be a reception on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 from 2:00 p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. with a special panel discussion with the artists and guest
curator. Regular Gallery hours
are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. When photographers Donn Young and Gus Bennett,
Jr., stared loss in the face after Hurricane Katrina they searched
through their emotional and physical lives, assessed
the damage and moved on. They entered spaces and captured images and rescued
items that were difficult to see, but needed to be saved in order to help
tell
the story of New Orleans. Donn Young returned to New Orleans to find his
studio and over one million images
taken during his twenty-five year career virtually eliminated. In light
of this, he began documenting the devastation of not just his life, but
the lives of others in the City as well. Gus Bennett documented the efforts
of curator and archivist Linda Hill to rescue
a collection of African antiquities
that were left unattended and deteriorating on a local university campus.
She endured the hazardous environment, located the items, removed them
and began working For those who make New Orleans their home after Katrina, it is not always
easy to find the beauty that has been covered up by the debris of the
storm. This exhibition is about three remarkable
individuals who chose to help save
New Orleans through their individual efforts and are now sharing
those efforts collectively; a metaphor for what it takes to live in New
Orleans today. This exhibition will challenge your senses,
in part, because we dare to display the images of objects that under different
circumstances would be gazed upon with
notions of beauty, humor and historic documentation. In this context,
however, we are sharing those objects in their vulnerable state, straddling
the line, in appearance,
of art and refuse. This is a story about seeing devastation,
experiencing the pain and moving forward The Community Folk Art Center will continue its Cinema Thursday series
on Thursday, March 22nd at 7:00 p.m. with a screening of the film Robert,
Mary and Katrina directed by Marjoleine Boonstra. The film is about how
one New Orleans family, led by Mary and Robert Manuel, aged 70 and 72
respectively, survive Hurricane Katrina. Admission to the film is $5.00
for adults, $3.00 for students and $1.00 for ages 3 and under. |
The Community Folk Art Center is a program of the African American Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and |
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